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Beyond “Prompt and Pray”

O'Reilly on Data

This approach delivers substantial benefits: consistent execution, lower costs, better security, and systems that can be maintained like traditional software. When we talk about conversational AI, were referring to systems designed to have a conversation, orchestrate workflows, and make decisions in real time.

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Cost, security, and flexibility: the business case for open source gen AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Travel and expense management company Emburse saw multiple opportunities where it could benefit from gen AI. Both types of gen AI have their benefits, says Ken Ringdahl, the companys CTO. Another benefit is that with open source, Emburse can do additional model training. You get more control over your costs.

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Agentic AI design: An architectural case study

CIO Business Intelligence

The analyst firm Forrester named AI agents as one of its top 10 emerging technologies this year and that it will deliver benefits in the next two to five years. It’s important to break it down this way so you can see beyond the hype and understand what is specifically being referred to. Why has agentic AI become the latest rage?

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Cloud Computing Realities – Part 1

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

Managed cloud services, commonly referred to as software as a service (SaaS), offer many benefits to organizations including significantly reduced labor costs for system administration and maintenance, as many of these costs are shifted to the software vendor.

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Reduce your compute costs for stream processing applications with Kinesis Client Library 3.0

AWS Big Data

As applications process more and more data over time, customers are looking to reduce the compute costs for their stream processing applications. which enables you to reduce your stream processing cost by up to 33% compared to previous KCL versions. Additionally, we cover additional benefits that KCL 3.0 We then show how KCL 3.0

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Amazon EMR 7.5 runtime for Apache Spark and Iceberg can run Spark workloads 3.6 times faster than Spark 3.5.3 and Iceberg 1.6.1

AWS Big Data

In this post, we demonstrate the performance benefits of using the Amazon EMR 7.5 Additionally, the cost efficiency improves by 2.9 times, with the total cost decreasing from $16.00 Geometric mean over queries in seconds 8.30046 10.13153 20.40555 Cost* $5.39 $7.18 $16.00 *Detailed cost estimates are discussed later in this post.

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An AI Data Platform for All Seasons

Rocket-Powered Data Science

Pure Storage empowers enterprise AI with advanced data storage technologies and validated reference architectures for emerging generative AI use cases. See additional references and resources at the end of this article. OVX Validated Reference Architecture for AI-ready Infrastructures First question: What is OVX validation?